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Into The Wild

Into The Wild. Chapters 1 and 2 Presented by Emily Brewington Matthew Gorham. The Alaskan Interior: A mostly- wilderness territory covering most of Alaska. It includes Mt. McKinley and Denali. The largest city in the Interior is Fairbanks, where Alex sent a postcard.

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Into The Wild

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  1. Into The Wild Chapters 1 and 2 Presented by Emily Brewington Matthew Gorham

  2. The Alaskan Interior: A mostly- wilderness territory covering most of Alaska. It includes Mt. McKinley and Denali. The largest city in the Interior is Fairbanks, where Alex sent a postcard. The Stampede Trail: The Stampede Trail is the trail Alex plans to travel. It starts near the coal mining town of Healy and wanders west throughout the forest. It breaks up and scatters around Mt. McKinley. Titles

  3. Wayne Westerberg: Receives a postcard from Alex, and it goes to Carthage, South Dakota. He is told he may never seen Alex again. Who is Wayne? Jack London: His name found on a piece of wood that read ‘Jack London is King Alexander Supertramp May 1992’. Jack London was born January 12, 1876 in San Francisco and died November 22, 1916 at the age of 40. He wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Seawolf’, as well as a few other less popular novesl. He wrote realistic and naturalistic literature. Alex’s name ‘Supertramp’ came from the autobiography of William Henry Davies, describing the way of life for a tramp in England and the USA at the time of migration and railway building. Epigraph April 27th, 1992 Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory. But I finally got here. Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you’re a great man. I now walk into the wild. Alex.

  4. Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness- a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. -Jack London, White Fang.

  5. Postcard- A postcard was sent to Wayne Westerberg from Alex, saying that Alex now lived in the wild. This is the first time we hear of Alex, and it foreshadows the rest of the chapter and gives hints about the rest of the book. From just the postcard, we can figure out that Alex is the one the book is about, that he’s not from Alaska and hitchhiked all the way there, and that we, as well as Wayne, may never hear from him again... Jack London- Alexander Supertramp seems to like literature. Specifically, Jack London, the author of White Fang. The excerpt from the book describes a winter forest, forever frozen in the words of Jack London. He describes a forest so sad, so miserable, that could only be the frozen-hearted Northland Wild. At the same time, he describes the Stampede Trail, stuck in a wintry ice land, where Alex dares to travel... Epigraphs- How They Fit

  6. Who Is Alex? • April 28, 1992: Alex Supertramp is given a ride to the Stampede Trail by local electrician, Jim Gallien. Jim describes him, saying he ‘looks 18’ but claims to be 24. Alex says he’s from Carthage, South Dakota. He has a ten pound bag of rice, a small rifle, a camera, a beaten-up road map, and his gear was not very thick and wasn’t made to withstand normal Alaskan forest weather. Jim gives him some boots, food, and his phone number. Alex, in turn, gives Jim all his money (85¢), a watch, and a comb. And with that, Jim drops Alex off as close to the trail as he can get, most likely never to see each other again.

  7. Who is Christopher McCandless? • April 1992: A young man from a well-off family hitchhiked to Alaska. He gives the $25,000 he has to charity, then burns his wallet. He plans on inventing a new life for himself. He is found dead just four months later.

  8. Alex: Hitchhikes from South Dakota to Alaska. No money, very little supplies. Also won’t give last name. April 1992... Chris: Hitchhikes to Alaska. Gave away and burned all his money, abandons car and possessions. April 1992... Alex... Christopher...

  9. Alaska Largest state Least densely populated state Made a state in 1959 Home to Mt. McKinley/Denali

  10. McKinley to Everest Mt. McKinley: 20, 320 feet above sea level Centerpiece of Denali National Park Mt. Everest: 29, 028 feet above sea level Highest mountain on Earth

  11. The StampedeTrail • Originally found by an Alaskan miner named Earl Pilgrim in the 1930s. • Yutan Construction upgrades trail in 1961, planning to make it so that trucks could travel safely on the path. • 3 buses house the construction workers. • Project is halted in 1963; Yutan took two of the buses, but left one to shelter hunters at the half-way point in the unfinished road.

  12. The Discovery of Chris McCandless • Ken Thompson, his employee Gordon Samel, and friend Ferdie Swanson set out to see the bus. • They find a couple from Anchorage, disturbed by the bus’s smell and a note written on a page from a novel by Nikolay Gogol. • Samel finds a sleeping bag among the things in the bus. In it, the remains of Chris McCandless. • A sixth man shows up at the scene. Butch Killian, a miner, calls state troopers to pick up the body.

  13. Discovery of Chris, cont. • The authorities take the body, a camera with five rolls of exposed film, the SOS note, and a diary that recorded Chris’s last weeks. • Although Chris put his signature at the end of his notes and most of his pictures were self-portraits, he had no identification, so the authorities could not say that the body was Christopher McCandless. • The autopsy of the body showed no internal damage besides weakness caused by hunger. Starvation was speculated as the most likely cause of death.

  14. S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE. I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO JOKE. IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE REMAIN TO SAVE ME. I AM OUT COLLECTING BERRIES CLOSE BY AND SHALL RETURN THIS EVENING. THANK YOU, CHRIS MCCANDLESS. AUGUST?

  15. Discussion Questions- Ch. 1 and 2 • What significance does the bus on the cover have? • Why did Alex decide to come to Alaska? • Who do you think Wayne Westerberg is? • Would you have told the State Troopers about Alex? Why or why not? • What do you think killed Christopher McCandless? • Why do you think the construction project was cancelled? • Why was a bus left in the forest? • If you had found Chris’s body, what would you have done? • Why do you think Chris had brought so many novels? What may have happened if he hadn’t? • Who do you think Alex Supertramp is? • What else, besides starvation, may have killed Chris McCandless?

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